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Social game platform LINE GAME of Japanese popular messaging application LINE is peak form. However, they do not seem to be satisfied with it. They offer a game in mobile virtual world LINE Play. The first game is "Tsuri Tomo(Fishing friends)".
The fishing is a basic game existing in every virtual worlds and MMOs. Tsuri Tomo is similar to them, too. Users catch various fish at the sea and can make a fish album. There are 240 kinds of kinds of fish, and we can be improved by catching many fish and can upgrade a fishing rod and bait.
Unfortunately this is contents only for Japanese regions at present. However, of course they will provide this in a global region in future.
Japanese game startup JapanSocial opens platform "TokyoGameStyle" that providing Japanese mobile social games for Taiwanese on June 1.
They translate and localize popular Japanese mobile social games for a Taiwanese. The offer of 7 games has been already arranged informally.
They disclose information in Taiwanese maximum game site Bahamut and start pre-registration ahead of opening. According to them, the press release for Taiwan is received favorably by Taiwanese people. Furthermore, the official FaceBook page of TokyoGameStyle gets 3,500 Like!.
Live2D Cubism is a high-end tool for professionals. Live2D has been used for some smartphone apps and avatars in Web sites until now in Japan. However, they started in earnest at last. Furthermore, they release English version in this summer. The overseas companies which are interested in this tool, please continue checking them.
Characters of popular smartphone game Puzzle & Dragons become the premiums of the lottery. We pull a lottery for 500 yen once and can get these.
We can pull such a lottery in the Japanese convenience stores. Those most do not have a loser lottery, so we can get something. Probably it will be Japan's original marketing and promotion technique. Many contents such as comics, animes and games distribute original prizes to people by a lottery. In addition, Angry Birds enforces similar technique.
SEGA's smartphone game subsidiary SEGA networks released social game Puyo puyo Quest for iOS. It broke through 1 million downloading from release in 10 days.
Well..., You would think "This is Puzzle & Dragons!". Of course many Japanese of game clusters think so, too. SEGA networks announced the information of Puyo puyo Quest progressively before released it. And it was under fire. Many people blamed that SEGA ripped off Puzzle & Dragons. However, it broke through 500,000 downloading from release in 3 days and broke through 1 million downloading in 10 days.
Why? I think that it is the result of the brand power of Puyo puyo. Puyo puyo is a Japanese puzzle game of the 23rd from release in this year. Video game, arcade, PC, online, mobile etc ... It has been published in every platform. There are not the people who do not know Puyo puyo in Japanese gamers. On the other hand, Puzzle & Dragons was a totally new game. Puyo puyo Quest surely resembles Puzzle & Dragons. However, Puyo puyo is Puyo puyo.
In addition, SEGA networks releases the Android version of Puyo puyo Quest in a few days.
